1. Characteristics of life

2. Learning Target
Identify the 8 characteristics of life and apply them to living and non-living things

3. Discuss in your table groups:
What is it that makes something alive? What characteristics do an elephant, a beetle, a tree and a bacteria all have in common?

4. Life’s characteristics unify all living things
Characteristics of Life
Life’s characteristics unify all living things
Cells - the basic unit of life

5. Characteristics of Life
And Life’s resulting Organization
Energy Consumption

6. Characteristics of Life
Organisms Sense and Respond to Change (respond to external stimuli)
Living things are irritable!

7. Characteristics of Life
Organisms must maintain a stable internal environment:
Homeostasis

8. Characteristics of Life
All organisms exhibit Growth and Development

9. Characteristics of Life
All organisms exhibit have Genetic Material in the form of DNA and RNA

10. Characteristics of Life
Reproduction
DNA is stable and can be passed from parent to offspring
Adaptation through Evolution
DNA is also able to change through time by way of mutation which can lead to variation and adaptive traits, natural selection, and ultimately evolution and adaptation in a population

11. Characteristics of Life
Reproduction
DNA is stable and can be passed from parent to offspring
Adaptation through Evolution
DNA is also able to change through time by way of mutation which can lead to variation and adaptive traits, natural selection, and ultimately evolution and adaptation in a population
Descent
Charles Darwin’s big idea: descent with modification (variation in a population) by way of natural selection
with Modification

12. The Characteristics of Life Unify all living things
Energy consumption
Cells
Response to external stimuli
Homeostasis
Growth and Development
Genetic material (DNA and RNA)
Reproduction
Adaptation through Evolution

13. Scavenger hunt time!
We are going to go outside! With your group take a picture of something that is alive When we come back you will have to explain how your photographed something exhibits all of the characteristics of life

14. Are Viruses Alive? Read “Are Viruses Alive?”
Should viruses be classified as alive? On a separate sheet of paper, write a paragraph arguing your point. The paragraph should be at least 8 sentences long